1000 hit from Yahoo Image Search

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  anonemiss · Member · Mar 28, 2013 at 4:43 am

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  I am getting 1000+ hit from Yahoo Image Search, one single term hitting the same page. This has really skewed my stats. It happened two days in a row on one blog (same page) until I put the post private, I re-published the post later. It also happened on my second blog yesterday.

  Anyone else with this problem?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 28, 2013 at 4:47 am

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  I’ll tag this for staff attention and hopefully someone will be around soon to take a look for you.

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 28, 2013 at 4:58 am

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  Several blogs have reported this, even Raincoaster has had this happen to her site – Yahoo changed something and they carpet bomb a site with referrals for an hour or so then go away until the next day

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 28, 2013 at 6:30 am

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  Yep, I don’t know what Yahoo is doing, but I always say it’s a problem when stats go down and an interesting situation when they go up.

  It’s not “skewed” stats. It’s unusual, but honest, stats.

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  helper-heroponriki · Member · Mar 28, 2013 at 4:49 pm

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  This has happened to a few of our users, and our systems team traced it to an Internet Explorer toolbar called FunWebProducts. When a person using the toolbar visits your page, any image from Yahoo on your page generates a spike in automated visits. It’s not spam or anything malicious on your own computer or your blog. You can safely disregard it, but thanks for letting us know. :)

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 29, 2013 at 5:38 am

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  “Any image from Yahoo on your page” eh? I have never used an image from Yahoo. Are they including Flickr in this?